Turkey has replaced Russia as the dominant power in Syria, a prominent expert tells JNS. By Yaakov Lappin, JNS Turkey is ...

Umayyad Mosque at sunset – a Christian basilica ... Somewhat disconcertingly, the women in our tour group were compelled once inside the mosque to don pale blue hooded robes as revealing as ...

Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa was born in October 1982 in Saudi Arabia, where he spent the first seven years of his life. In a rare ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Sahar Diab had visited Damascus’ famed Umayyad Mosque previously. But as the Syrian lawyer ... but a ...

Then, cameras still in tow, Sharaa went to the city’s historic Umayyad mosque to announce that ... It is difficult to understand what is inside Sharaa’s heart Sharaa and HTS’s softened ...

The next day, we descended on the richly decorated eighth-century Umayyad Mosque ... the women in our tour group were compelled once inside the mosque to don pale blue hooded robes as revealing ...

The Umayyad Mosque was a masterpiece of early Islamic architecture ... Christians had slaughtered Muslims inside a mosque in Homs; Christians in Damascus were arming themselves to attack Muslims ...

Worshippers exit the Umayyad Mosque after prayers on the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in Damascus, Syria, Saturday March 1, 2025.(AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki,File) × FILE.- ...

At the Umayyad Mosque, the rituals were age-old: A woman fingering a prayer bead and kissing a copy of the Quran; the faithful standing shoulder-to-shoulder and prostrating in prayer; the Umayyad ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — (AP) — Sahar Diab had visited Damascus' famed Umayyad Mosque previously. But as the Syrian lawyer went there to pray during her country's first Ramadan after the end of the ...